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16 December 2003 - 12:14 pm
Every musician has, at some point in their career, recorded at least one holiday song. This year, Fox capitalized on this by broadcasting a "Jingle Ball Rock" concert. The broadcast featured rock pop stars such as Hillary Duff, Jessica Simpson, and Kelly Clarkson, so the name "Jingle Ball Rock" was a bit misleading. Fortunately, the ads for the broadcast were not misleading at all, and I avoided this show like the plague that it is. But I have been wondering, what are the best rock 'n roll holiday songs? Just off the top of my head I came up with "Christmas Time Is Here Again" by the Beatles, the "Favorite Things" cover by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and Bright Eyes' "Blue Christmas" cover. So, I'm asking for some help. If you know of some decent Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa music by bands that don't get most of their spins courtesy of Radio Disney, leave a comment. I'm hoping to put together at least an hour of music and put Fox's lame "Jingle Ball Rock" to shame.
Posted by on 16 December 2003 at 12:14 PM
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Off the top of my head:
Something Corporate: Forget December
Zebrahead: Deck the Halls (I Hate Christmas)
New Found Glory: Ex-Miss
Smashing Pumpkins: Christmastime (if you're looking for a song that actually sounds like a Christmas song)
Posted by Chris Hill Festival on 16 December 2003 - 12:36 PM
If you are really interested check out Phil Spector's Christmas album. It is mostly classic Christmas songs, except done in a Phil Spector, "wall of sound" manner. It is really good. Really, really good.
Posted by Nathan on 16 December 2003 - 3:21 PM
Weezer's "Christmas Song" is very sad and thus good. But honestly, I don't think you can go wrong with Bing Crosby and Lena Horne.
Posted by Rachel on 16 December 2003 - 7:27 PM
I collect interesting Jewish music. My favorite Chanuka songs are Yom Hadash's recording of "v'al kulam" and Tsimmis's recording of "Maoz Tsur". It's not your mother's Maoz Tsur they recorded, it's a Sephardic melody and it's really beautiful.
If you want something camp/rock, how about Debbie Friedman's "Not by might, not by power". Also, Safam has a great recurding of "al hanisim" in waltz time.
There's always Peter Paul and Mary's "Don't let the light go out".
Open invitation to come by and hear some of this music to the negative273 community....
Posted by rkc on 16 December 2003 - 10:08 PM